Vice President Biden to students: Change campus rape climate
Vice President Joe Biden urged Atlanta college students on Tuesday to change the culture on their campuses to create an environment where there is zero tolerance for sexual assaults.
Biden, who authored the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, said the rate of violence against women has fallen across the country except on college campuses.
“We have a cultural problem. We have to change the standard of decency by which we measure ourselves,” Biden said. “The standard with which we have to measure ourselves is if we do not have consent, it is rape. Period.”
Biden delivered that message at Morehouse College, where he spoke to a crowd of students mainly from Morehouse and Spelman colleges as part of the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign. Morehouse was the final stop on Biden’s three-campus swing that began Monday at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and continued Tuesday morning at South Carolina’s Clemson University before his afternoon stop in Atlanta.
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